BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Sunday school lesson that was being taught 50 years ago on the morning of the bombing that killed four girls at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, "A Love That Forgives," will ...

Editor’s note: This story originally published Dec. 25, 2023. It was updated Sunday with the news of President Jimmy Carter’s death. Jimmy Carter gave his last Sunday school lesson several years ago, ...

No matter how many times one crammed into the modest sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church, there was always some wisdom to be gleaned from the measured, Bible-inspired words of Jimmy Carter. This was ...

Growing up, I hated going to Sunday school. My parents waking me up too early on a weekend to attend a class that gave no report card and put me right back to sleep? No thanks. As an adult, I shunned ...

If The Guinness Book of World Records had a category for Sunday school attendance, we'd nominate 81-year-old Bertha George. You see, Miss Bertha - as she's called - hasn't missed a lesson in 50 years' ...

PLAINS, Ga. - Former President Jimmy Carter is on the hearts and minds of people around the world praying for peace and comfort for him and his family. Related: Jimmy Carter: The Carter Center now ...

For the first time ever, the former president taught a second class to accommodate the faithful More than 800 people lined up in the wee hours outside the tiny Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.

The lady in the fancy pink suit and fancy blue top hat trimmed in pink caught my attention as she entered the fellowship hall where I was enjoying a pre-Sunday School breakfast with my grandparents at ...

Some 40 million children, youth, and adults are receiving instruction in the Christian religion in Sunday Schools of America. What they are taught will largely determine what the Church of tomorrow ...

PLAINS, Ga. — At the ungodly hour of 5 a.m., faithful and faithless gather in the parking lot at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, population roughly 800 if you count the dogs and cats. The Sunday ...

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